2. A Kernel Of Sense - Mottaki humiliated at European Parliament - from the usually Muslim-compliant and gutless Europeans. Wow.
4. Look In The Mirror - The current governmental leadership in Turkey, which has apparently anointed itself as Israel's moral mentor, has a few skeletons in its closet. First, the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Here is a useful FAQ summary about the subject.
5. Look In The Mirror Again - Or then there's the issue about the Kurds and their human rights. Hmmmmm - maybe these guys aren't as pure as the driven snow after all......
9. Political Correctness, I'd Say - or just stupidity - Israel - Ambassador Protesting Yahoo Weather Apps Dividing Jerusalem -- VosIzNeias.com
13. Reuters - Your first choice is "faux-tography" - Reuters under fire for removing weapons, blood from images of Gaza flotilla - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
14. Hitch-22 - Christopher Hitchens has just published a new memoir - "Hitch-22". Here are some reviews, as well as his take on the Flotilla Story:
- On the Contrary - by Adam Kirsch > Tablet Magazine - A New Read on Jewish Life
- Marni Soupcoff: Today’s rebels are on the right | Full Comment | National Post
- The flotilla foul-up pits former friends Israel and Turkey against each other. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
16. Salam Fayyad - too good to be true? The emergence of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is the best thing to happen to the Middle East in ages. - By Michael Weiss - Slate Magazine. Khaled Abu Toameh, whom I have had the pleasure of meeting and whose views I respect, thinks so, but perhaps not for the reasons you'd think - The Palestinians: Why Salam Fayyad Cannot Deliver - Hudson New York.
17. Death Of A Rabbi - Former Chief Sephardic Rabbi Eliyahu died yesterday at age 81. Rabbi Eliyahu laid to rest. According to press reports, he was a spiritual leader of religious Zionism. Various controversial statements were attributed to the Rabbi, such as that the death of some 230,000 people in Asia and Africa as a result of the 2004 tsumani was divine retribution for their government's support of concessions to the Palestinians, or that the murder of victims of the Shoah was caused by changes to Jewish ritual initiated by the Reform Judaism movement. I would speak out against a priest or imam saying something similar, so I will do the same here. If they are correctly reported, I think that those statements are outrageous and deeply offensive.
18. Today's Sign Of The Apocalypse:
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